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Author Ron, Ariel, 1978- author.

Title Grassroots leviathan : agricultural reform and the rural North in the slaveholding republic / Ariel Ron.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 308 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia
Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "Author Ron traces how middle-class farmers in the "Greater Northeast" built a movement of semi-public agricultural societies, fairs, and periodicals that, together, fundamentally recast the relationship of rural people to market forces and governing structures. A novelty of his historical interpretation is that he posits agrarian reform in the North as an antithesis to the slaveholding South rather than industrialization as has been traditionally juxtaposed with the South's plantation economy"-- Provided by publisher
Contents Introduction -- In Medias Res -- PART I RISE OF THE AGRICULTURAL REFORM MOVEMENT -- 1 The Limits of Patrician Agricultural Reform -- 2 Agricultural Reform as a State-Building Social Movement -- PART II THE MAKING OF NORTHERN ECONOMIC NATIONALISM -- 3 Economic Nationalism in the Greater Rural Northeast -- 4 Henry C. Carey and the Republican Developmental Synthesis -- PART III TOWARD A NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL POLICY AGENDA -- 5 A Crisis of Agricultural Expertise -- 6 From "Private Enterprise" to "Governmental Action" -- PART IV A GRICULTURAL REFORM VERSUS THE SLAVEOCRACY -- 7 Movement into Lobby -- 8 The Sectionalization of National Agricultural Policy -- Epilogue
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Subject Agriculture and state -- New England -- History -- 19th century.
Agriculture and state.
New England.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- New England -- History -- 19th century.
Agriculture -- Economic aspects.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Ron, Ariel, 1978- Grassroots leviathan. Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020 9781421439327 (DLC) 2020002937 (OCoLC)1140351310
ISBN 1421439336 (electronic book)
9781421439334 (electronic book)
1421439328
9781421439327